Barack Obama Quotes
Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.
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I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
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I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
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I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.
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I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.
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The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.
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I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.
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In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.
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I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.
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Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.
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The only tough thing is admitting to my wife how much a certain article of clothing costs.
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I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be.
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I never thought we'd ever have a black president. President Obama has done such a tremendous job... He just has been unable to get what he needs to be moved at the level it should be moved.
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Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.
